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Re: New Poster - Looking To Buy An Authentic SS Uniform

My first black tunic cost me the equivalent of USD 275 nearly forty years ago, and such was a fortune for a young person. I still own it, but had to buy it back at a higher price a decade ago from a noted author publisher hereabouts. I bought another soon thereafter for USD 400 which was an untold sum.

These things are more common in the pictorial record than in reality then and especially now.

Re: New Poster - Looking To Buy An Authentic SS Uniform

The placement of a price tag on all things great and small is a pretty enervating and frustrating process, really.

I do not think it will all end well, really.

My only hopes is that once my stewardship of such objects ends, that they will go to a proper place and be preserved in good hands. The opposite is often likely, with a lot of material being badly treated, mangled, ripped apart and abused at a great cost to the understanding of the past.

Re: New Poster - Looking To Buy An Authentic SS Uniform

Indeed.

These black uniforms, whatever their value, seem to have virtually disappeared from the commercial market. It was not that long ago when they stood, looking for a buyer, for some weeks or even months on the major sites. Visors seem to have risen in value as well, but there are always plenty of them around to choose from.

I would think an intact, organic tunic of the A-SS would be worth $10-12K today, and that of the VT, TV or SD in the $12-15K range if not more.

I can remember seeing some wonderful displays of these things on now-deceased forums; right or wrong, they seem to be underground in tight hands today.

Re: New Poster - Looking To Buy An Authentic SS Uniform

by Frog

Indeed.

These black uniforms, whatever their value, seem to have virtually disappeared from the commercial market. It was not that long ago when they stood, looking for a buyer, for some weeks or even months on the major sites. Visors seem to have risen in value as well, but there are always plenty of them around to choose from.

I would think an intact, organic tunic of the A-SS would be worth $10-12K today, and that of the VT, TV or SD in the $12-15K range if not more.

I can remember seeing some wonderful displays of these things on now-deceased forums; right or wrong, they seem to be underground in tight hands today.

I am not expert on prices, and because I have a stake in these things, I cannot be disinterested. What I would write would be too partisan. I think more of this material is underground than we think, but less of it comes to the fora for whatever reason.

The shock of the economic crisis is pretty grave, surely.

Or the high rollers have short circuited some of the wires upon which you and I have relied, and we are left out in the cold and the dark.

Re: New Poster - Looking To Buy An Authentic SS Uniform

further image as concerns alu embroidery and the appearance of black Trikot....in this case ca. 70 years of age. Said image was from the brief moment when my camera worked and my fading eyesight allowed me to focus. The camera is busted and my jittery hand (the toll of various bacterial ravages of the brain...) make it impossible now to search for said details.

Re: New Poster - Looking To Buy An Authentic SS Uniform

Some more details. Buttons on many SS uniforms are of the SA/SS style, with so called Wildmatt pebbling in contrast to the style found on military buttons of the time. This feature changed at the end of the 1930s. Such buttons were also nickle plated. Notice the appearance of the button holes as well as the patina of time on same.

Happy picayune details. How can any sane person care about all of this?